Matrix-setting and type-casting machine.



H. DREWELL; MATRIX SETTING AND TYPE CASTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED FEB.24, 1909.

1,077,512. Patented N0v.4, 1913.

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H. DREWELL. MATRIX SETTING AND TYPE CASTING MACHINE. APPLICATION PILEDIEKM, 1909.

1,077,512, Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFIQFL HEINRICH DREWELL, 0F CHARLOTTENBURG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO SGHNELLSETZ- MASCHINENGESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCI-IBANKTER HAFTUNG, 0F BERLIN, GER- MANY.

MATRIX-SETTING AND TYPE-CASTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 24, 1309. Serial No. 479,773.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HEINRICH DREWELL, subject of the German Emperor, residing at Oharlottenburg, Germany, have invented new, and useful Improvements in Matrix- Setting and Type-Casting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The subject-matter of the present invention is improved means for matrix-setting and type casting machines for making mixed matter.

For composing mixed matter in matrixsetting and type-casting machines of the Mergenthaler type matrices with two or more characters are employed. \Vhen composing the lines the matrices are adjusted in height in such manner that the desired characters are brought into line. In known devices employed for this purpose one common receiving place is provided for all heights. The varying adjustment is brought about either by an adjustable stop being placed in the path of the matrices at the receiving place, or by the assembling block beino adjusted in height before the removal of t e matrices in the same, which adjustment places the matrices in the desired reciprocal position. In contradistinction to these known arrangements, in accordance with the present invention a device having two or more separate receiving places is pro vided which are used for the different positions of the matrices. The matrices are supplied to the receiving places by means of a reversible guide arranged in front of the assembling block. iVhen the guide is reversed the collecting star is simultaneously moved so that it can convey the matrices with certainty into each receiving position in the assembling block. One important advantage of this arrangement is that the upper receiving places can be arranged so far from the lower that no obstacle arises to obstruct the matrices which are to be put into the lower position, as in means known heretofore. Further, in this improved ar rangement firm receiving faces can be provided at both the side walls of the assembling block, and, in addition, it is not necessary to convey into the assembling block by means of a special device the matrices located on the receiving place before each reversal of the collecting device.

In order that the invention may be clearly understood reference will be made to the in which one emaccompanying drawing b f I y way 0 examp e bodiment is represente and in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the entire arrangement, and Fig. 2 an end elevation of the guide as seen in the direction of the arrow A in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 shows the adjustable guide with the collecting star in front elevation, whereas Fig. l is a top plan view of the assembling block, and Fig. 5 is a detail. Figs. 6 and 7 give some details, showing the working of the machine.

Similar reference numerals denominate like parts in all views.

Referring to the drawing, 1 is the assembling block, the front wall of which is not shown in Fig. 1 in order to show more clearly the interior arrangement. In the assembling block there are twoguiding faces or tracks 2 and 3, on which the matrices fall and on which they are conveyed farther. At the front ends of these two tracks or'faces there are hooks 4 and 5 which prevent the matrices sliding toward the collecting star. The tracks may be arranged both on the front and the rear wall separately and also on both walls. In front of the entrance to the assembling block there isarranged the spacebar channel 7 and on the foundation plate or frame 6 the collecting device. The shaft 8 of the belt pulley 9, over which the conveying belt 10 runs, is j ournaled in the frame 6. Further, in the plate 6 is journaled an axle 12 which is attached in the plate 13 and can rotate simultaneously with this plate. The plate 13 situated next to the frame plate 6 forms with the intermediate member let and the front plate 15 (Figs. 1 and 2) the bottom guide of the matrix collecting device. Between the lower parts of the plates 13 and 15 there rotates the collecting star 16 which consists of three parts. The pinion 18, shown separately in Fig. 5, is rigidly attached on the bushing 17 and forms the inner part. The two side parts, the stars 19 and 20 made of soft'material, are pushed onto the square bushing 17. The latter rotates around a screw 21 which is screwed into the plate 13 and has its head in the plate 15. l/Vith the pinion 18 a toothed wheel 22 meshes whose axle 23 isjournaled in the two plates 13 and 15 and extends backward through the frame 6 to a third journal in the plate 24. This plate is rigidly connected by means of the axle 12 and Patented Nov. 4: 1913.

a pin 25 with the plates 13 and 15 and is rotated around the axle 12 when the latter plates rotate. Around the axle 12 there rotates a grooved pulley 26 and a toothed wheel 27 connected with the latter. This wheel 27 meshes with a pinion 28 on the axle 8:0f the belt-pulley 9. A grooved pulley 29 on the axle 23 is driven by means of an end- 7 less cord 26 from the pulley 26. By means of this device the rotation of the belt-pulley 9 is imparted to the axle 23, wheel 22 and to the Collecting star 16.

At each end position of the guiding de vices the bottom ends 30 and 31 of the guide plates 13 and 15 are directly at one of the hooks a or 5, namely so that the matrices sliding .over the guides can slide onward over the concerned hooks. For producing ordinary type the matrix guide is so adjusted that the matrices arrive on the bottom receiving face 2. In this case the bottom end of the guide is in its extreme bot tom position to the right. 13 or reversing to another sort of type the guide is ro-- tated around theax'le 1 2 and consequently the matrices pass over the hook 5 and arrive on the end of the second guiding face 3.

In order to secure the guide in its end position, the guide plate 13 has an extension which is formed at its end like a blade and when adjusted to the bottom track lies against a stop or pin 34. Opposite the end of this extension there is a catch or dog 35 revoluble around the axle 36 and moved by a spring 37 against the extension 33. By means of a handle 38 arranged on the extension 33 the guideplate l3 together with the parts attached on it can be rotated around theaxle 12 until the bottom end 30 reaches its extreme position to the left. The

catch '35 then snaps in front of the extension 33 and holds the guide in the position into which it has been brought. A tensioned spring 39, which is attached to the plate 15, constantly tends to move the bottom part of I the guide to the right and to place the extension 33 either against the catch 35 or against the pin 34. In order to return the; guide into the right-hand position it 1s only necessary to withdraw thecatch from the extension 33 by means of the small handle 40, whereupon the gulde returns into its ex- 3 blmg blocks, one pair o1 hooks being aras clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Both pairs of hooks are movable independently one of the other. The hooks are prevented by pins 44 and 45 from entering farther than? necessary into the assembling block. Above assembling block forms with the face of the plate 6 one uninterrupted face of sufficient breadth. The edge 48 of the assembling block on which the side shoulders of the space-bar pusher rest, falls toward the rear, whereas the matrix tracks 2 and 3 rise toward the rear, sothatat the rear end of the assembling blockthat reciprocal position of the matrices and space-bars is obtained which is necessary for introducing the lines of matrices into the other devices of the machine. When the collecting star and the guide are in the forward position when a line is completed, before the assembling block is raised the catch 35 must be released so that the star may pass out of the assembling block. Instead of the guide being reversed by hand it may" also be reversed mechanically, forexample by a cam.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis:

1. In a matrix-setting and type-casting machine of the character described, the combination of an assembling block having two receiving tracks at different heights, a guide for guiding matrices to said tracks, a collecting star, and means for adjusting said guide and said collectingstar.

2. In a matrix-setting and type-casting machine of the character described, the combination of an assembling block having two receiving tracks at different heights, a guide, mounted revolubly, for guiding matrices to simultaneously adjusting said guide and said collecting star.

3. In "a "matrix-setting and typec-asting' machine of the character described, the combination of an assembling block having two receiving faces at different heights and a-rranged so far from one another that sufli cient space remains in front of the top receiving face toadmit of the matrices falling unintcrruptedly onto the bottom receiving face, and two pairs of hooks in the assemranged at the receiving end of each of said faces.

4. In a matrix-setting and type-casting machine of the character described, a collecting star comprising two star-shaped members and a pinion fixed between the same, for the purpose specified. 5. I machine of the character described, the combination, with the frame, of an axle (12), carrying two plates (13, '24), journaled therein, a toothed-wheel andapulley on said 125 n a matrix-setting and type-casting a-so said tracks, a collecting star, and means for axle, a third plate (152, a guide (14) between the latter plate 15) and the former plate (13), a pin holding the latter plates together, a second axle, carrying a second pulley, passing through said plates, an axle journaled in said third plate and in the former plate (13), a collecting star comprising two stars and a pinion between the same fixed on the latter axle, and a toothed wheel on said second axle and meshing with said pinion, for the purpose specified.

6. In a linotype machine in combination an assembling elevator, a conveyer mechanism transporting the matrices to the assembling elevator, a transport wheel adjustable in the direction of the set line and a plate movable to correspond to the movements of the transport wheel in such a manner as to bring the matrices before the transport wheel Whatever its position.

7. In a linotype machine in combination an assembling elevator, a conveyer mechanism transporting the matrices to the assembling elevator, a transport wheel adjustable in the direction of the set line and a movable plate to correspond to the movements of the transport wheel, said plate being attached to the transport wheel and be ing moved by adjusting the transport Wheel in such a manner as to bring the matrices before the transport Wheel whatever its posit-ion.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HEINRICH DREWELL.

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